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In today’s world, the creativity industry has been converted from a concept to a practical existence that represents an enormous market value. All over the world, it now can produce the value of up to 22 billion dollars just in one day, and the amount will keep increasing by 5%. In certain countries, the rate of increasing is even higher --- 14% in America, and 12% in Britain. By now, the attention of the entire world has been drawn upon so many creativity industries, as well as the creativity products, creativity services and creativity marketing activities in the developed countries, and consequently helped to form up a remarkable development trend of creativity economy. A world-wide scene of blooming creativity economy is being shown to us just now, with the creativity industries in different countries getting on with developing rapidly on the basis of their particular industrial value orientation, fields and modes, and having become the core competitiveness for a country or a city to develop or to take part in the market competition in the future.

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By now, the attention of the entire world has been drawn upon so many creativity industries, as well as the creativity products, creativity services and creativity marketing activities in the developed countries, and consequently helped to form up a remarkable development trend of creativity economy.

只说一句，“helped to”的主语是谁？

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广西，古称“巫蛮之地”。Guangxi is a region anciently known as the “Land of Witchery and Barbarity”.

传说远古流着一条峥嵘神秘的大河，河水燃着火、流着泪、唱着歌……因为，地下埋着个太阳！Legend has it that in time immemorial there was a mystic great river of not water but burning fire and tears, streaming down in singing uproar ... because underneath it was buried of a sun!

我出生广西，求学上海，命运让我回归。I was born in Guangxi and studied in Shanghai, but seem destined to come back.

我开始绘画上的巫蛮之旅，追寻那条消失的大河。Here I started a painting trip in the bewitching wilderness, intent on finding the vanished great river.

我并非考古，仅似沿着河床边，不断地捡回许多许多顽石子。Hardly was I dallying in archeology, the trip was as if merely for the retrieval of some marvelous pebbles here and there along the banks of a riverbed.

不管是黑是白，或是什么颜色，只要一经打磨到极致，它们就会发出令我心颤神迷的光芒。Black, white, or whatever color, once they are polished to perfection, they exude an enticing glow blissful to behold.

光芒仿佛是从最内核、最炫惑的角度，向我透射过来，使得崇拜欧派俄派绘画的我，又跪拜到广西这片灼热、野艳、苍雄、诡秘的十万红土山地上。The radiance seems to come from the innermost core and from an uncanny angle. A fervent adorer of European and Russian painting, I am bewitched by and fell in love head over toe with the terrain of Guangxi, the mountainous land of mystifying and fiery wilderness, of vast and majestic beauty.

渐渐，我领悟到：“巫蛮”两字并无贬义，倒是象形地铭刻着人类原始、赤裸、永恒的人性肌理。Gradually, I came to realize that the two words of "witchery and barbarity” contain no derogative meaning here. Rather, they are a hieroglyphic dedication engraved with the eternal fabric of original and naked human nature.

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想来，浩茫宇宙，天道人道，颠覆融合，周而复始……古今不过一瞬！我们绘画人，手中只有画笔，唯有执着正直、善良、完美。In my view, the ways of heaven and humanity that have so far prevailed are as lasting as but a wink in the infinite expansion of time and space; they are locked in an endless cycle of disintegration and reintegration. As painters with a brush in hand, we can only hope to dedicate ourselves to integrity, kindness, and perfection.

我继续溯源而上，越走越远，似乎听到大河狂乱的喧嚣，闻到悍烈的气息。I trekked further up, to the point where I seemed to peep over the threshold of space and time, to hear the frenzy uproar of the legendary river and smell the fiery wildness in the air.

但我畅想着，源头一定无比的宁静、温暖、明洁，一定会有一片青草地，那是众多艺术灵魂的辉煌会所。All the while, I imagined that at the head of the water lie the incomparable tranquility, warmth and brightness of a patch of grassland, on which is the grand edifice where many a brilliant soul of the fine arts meet. ......

在当今世界，创意产业已经从一种理念转化成为巨大的市场经济价值，In today’s world, the creativity industry has been converted from a concept to a practical existence that represents an enormous market value.

第一句我看有逻辑问题。the creativity industry has been converted from a concept to a practical existence…直译是创意产业已从概念转为实际存在。汉语中好像没有逻辑错误，大概是因为被动式未能译出。但是英语中有明显的逻辑错误。既然已经是产业了，那么怎么还又“被从概念转为实际存在”呢？ 不过倒是可以说它“是从概念转为实际存在的”。

试译如下：Today, the creativity industry has become a business of enormous (market) value from its initial stage of conception.

或者：Today, the creativity industry has grown from its initial stage of conception to a business of enormous (market) value.

[修改时间: 2009-03-28 13:37 GMT]

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In today’s world, the creativity industry has been converted from a concept to a practical existence that represents an enormous market value. All over the world, it now can produce the value of up to 22 billion dollars just in one day, and the amount will keep increasing by 5%. In certain countries, the rate of increasing is even higher --- 14% in America, and 12% in Britain. By now, the attention of the entire world has been drawn upon so many creativity industries, as well as the creativity products, creativity services and creativity marketing activities in the developed countries, and consequently helped to form up a remarkable development trend of creativity economy. A world-wide scene of blooming creativity economy is being shown to us just now, with the creativity industries in different countries getting on with developing rapidly on the basis of their particular industrial value orientation, fields and modes, and having become the core competitiveness for a country or a city to develop or to take part in the market competition in the future.

Creative industries typically include industries that focus on: creating and exploiting intellectual property products such as music, books, film and games; or providing business-to-business creative services including advertising, public relations and direct marketing. Aesthetic live-performance experiences are also generally included, which contributes to an overlap with definitions of art and culture, and even aspects of tourism and sport. Economic activities focussed on designing, making and selling objects or works of art such as jewellery, haute couture, books of poetry and other creative writing, and fine art are often included in the sector because the value of such objects derives from a high degree of aesthetic originality.

Creative industries exclude, and contrast with, industries that derive value by transferring ownership of pre-existing property (such as retail, financial-services and real-estate industries), by making a commoditised product or service (such as auto-manufacturing and electric-utility industries), and by maintaining or enhancing what already exists (such as the auto-repair industry).

BTW, Yueyin 和 Tingting 说得很对, 不要气馁, 多听多读对掌握习惯的英语说法很有帮助.

[Edited at 2009-03-28 16:36 GMT]

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我的稿子极差吗

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